books, wine, cheese, tea, vodka, and espresso
A history professor with a thick accent who can tell me of great battles, and who smells like bergamont.
perhaps too many to mention, but here are a few: David Bowie, The Doors, Tom Waits, Devotchka, The Hold Steady, Elliot Smith, Isobel Campbell, Placebo, Air, Goldfrapp, Tindersticks, Jesus and Mary Chain, Loenard Cohen, Marianne Faithfull, Go Sailor, Belle & Sebastian, Dressy Bessy, NIN, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Pogues, Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Portishead, Lamb, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Sugarcubes, British Sea Power, Pulp, Love & Rockets, and a little Tori Amos sprinkled in there, and on and on and on and on.........
Jesus' Son, Basquiat, House of Yes, SLC Punk, Virgin Suicides, Hilary and Jackie, Wonder Boys, Clockwork Orange, Gosford Park, Requiem for a Dream, PI, Mullholland dr., Natural Born Killers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Nightmare Before Christmas, Slums of Beverly Hiills, But I'm a Cheerleader!, Drop Dead Fred!, Anything with Alan Rickman (He will be mine!), Brazil, and of course the obligatory: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.......etc.
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Little Children, Bluebirds Used to Sing With the Choir by Joe Meno, J.T. Leroy's Heart is Decitful Above All Things, Sarah, Harold's End. Beautiful Losers and The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen, or any of his Poetry, Middlesex, anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, anything by Raymond Carver, Neil Gaiman, Girl with the Flammable Skirt by Amiee Bender, Confederacy of Dunces, Screwtape Letters, works by Roald Dahl, and I'm not going to bore you with much more, I'm a writer I read books, I have thousands in my library......I could chat about this for days..... p.s. Chuck Palahniuk is a hack!
Garrison Keillor